Month: July 2009

One more periodic table: from the 1924 CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, which one of my ancestors picked up somewhere. This periodic table has 79 elements, as opposed to the 117 on the current periodic table, 90 of which are naturally-occurring. The familiar modern layout of the periodic table (as on my previous post) …

Here is a PDF of the periodic table I used when I taught chemistry at Bucharest Christian Academy, updated to include copernicium (element 112, Cp). Feel free to copy and distribute this table. The GeoChristian Periodic Table of the Elements Here's what it looks like:

Element 112, a few atoms of which were created in Germany in 1996, finally has an official name. The new name is copernicium (symbol Cp), in honor of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). "Copernicium" replaces the temporary name ununbium (un=one, un=one, bi=two for 112, symbol Uub) that element 112 has had since it was created. It …

Jim DiPeso of Republicans for Environmental Protection gives 10 Environmental Issues Republicans Should Champion. Climate change Energy security Clean energy Clean air Clean water Mountaintop removal coal mining Land and water conservation fund Wilderness Public lands Ocean stewardship A few thoughts: Some of these should be no-brainers, such as clean air, clean water, and ocean …

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John Gresham Machen was a professor at Princeton Seminary in the early 1900s, and was founder of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is best known as a defender of Christian orthodoxy in the face of rising theological liberalism in the churches of his day. Perhaps his most famous book was Christianity and Liberalism, in …